Job Description

Position Summary:

The Sr Planner will be responsible for managing product transitions, revisions, and configuration changes across the supply chain to ensure seamless product lifecycle management. This role will focus on coordinating part number revisions, phasing in/out new and old BOM components, and supporting manufacturing cutover planning. With consistent support, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure our cutting-edge medical devices are produced on time, with quality, and at scale. If you are excited to make a difference in patients' lives and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this is the place for you!

Join us and be a part of something big. If you are ready to take your career to new heights and make a global impact, we want to hear from you!

Where you come in:

As a Sr Planner, you will be in an end-to-end supply chain role supporting the configuration planning strategy and a critical part in creating and executing critical projects that drive our global supply chain strategy. In this role, you will:

• Contribute to the Execution of Strategic Plans: Support supply chain execution by providing analysis and evaluation of planning scenarios around project qualification timelines, process lead times, changeover downtimes, determining risk vs. no risk and tracking dependencies and constraints to the plan of assigned product family.
• Risk Mitigation: Identify and mitigate risks across the global supply chain to ensure capacity, material availability, and on-time delivery.
• Supply Chain Planning: Analyze future requirements and work cross-functionally to ensure supply availability as part of the supply planning process. Provide inputs to support product launches and obsolescence planning, proactively identifying, escalating, and resolving potential issues.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with configuration / supply planning team, contract manufacturing management, program management, procurement team, R&D, manufacturing sites and other related supply chain teams to analyze, assess trade-offs, and develop comprehensive supply chain strategies for assigned product family.
• Data Analysis and Modeling: Perform process and data modeling for supply chain strategy scenarios using inputs from functional leaders and internal business partners. Provide data analysis to help develop business cases and build cross functional consensus and present proposals to leadership for projects with recommended implementation plans.
• Continuous Improvement: Provide support and input in the development of best practices and continuous improvement initiatives. Contribute to business process optimization initiatives, expanding on current business use cases to create a connected planning ecosystem in a highly collaborative environment.

What makes you successful:

• Planning Proficiency: Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of supply planning principles and fundamentals, ensuring effective management of inventory, capacity, and supply chain processes.
• Your Problem-Solving Skills: You identify problem statements considering overall goals and strategic objectives and execute strategy, managing through obstacles and ambiguity with support from Supply Chain leadership. You understand complex supply chains, define current situations & challenges, and propose solutions to reduce costs, lead-time, risks, and improve productivity.
• Your Communication Skills: You have experience following a structured communication strategy to keep stakeholders informed, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and experience communicating analysis, insights, and updates.
• Your Technical Proficiency: You have advanced Excel modeling skills and experience utilizing Supply Chain Systems such as Anaplan, Oracle EBS/Oracle Fusion, and SAP IBP.
• You are Adaptable: You adjust easily to a dynamic, ever-changing environment while promoting a collaborative atmosphere where team members can share ideas and work together to achieve common goals. You can work both independently and collaboratively with direct team members and business partners in a hybrid work environment.
• Your Analytical Mind: You possess excellent communication, presentation, problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making skills. You can synthesize information and think critically and creatively to identify opportunities for process and system improvement.
• Your Organization and Prioritization Skills: You effectively prioritize and execute tasks to meet deadlines, and you are organized and process oriented with an ability to excel in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and leadership requests.

Required Skills

Supply Planning – 3 Years

Advanced Problem Solving

Supply Chain Systems (ERP + Intermediate Excel)

Project Management

Attention to detail & Regulated Industry Exp

Data Analysis & Modeling

Education Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree

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